Meaningful 7-minute discussion on:

-gullibility and

- distraction

via the illusion of choice

Dennis Miller and George Carlin, circa 2001

Some things never change.😉

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https://m.primal.net/OEmh.mp4

I appreciate your original post and this expansion. And, at some point in future post(s), I would find it quite useful to read any additional perspectives you may have regarding your experiences with applying systems thinking, critical path identification, and other related decision-making elements. Maybe others would find this insight helpful, too. Thank you.

Thank you for asking. I have two episodes recorded and edited, and a third episode in the works right now. Then I'll decide which will be the first "to air".

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Okay, that was the prototype meme. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Here's the real one.

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𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐬. 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐠𝐨 𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐞.

𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐮𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐫𝐲 "𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨" 𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐰𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲:

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The next time I "knead" a massage, I'll remember this.

Important to identify a real expert.

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https://m.primal.net/NglY.mp4

Excellent tutorial! Thanks very much. Having short tutorials like this as you release new features is very helpful.👍 Maybe hashtag them with something like #PrimalTutorials so we can create a Primal Tutorials feed out of the hashtag for quick reference.

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Outstanding question. I would like to know the same. Being able to search and sort by relevance (a.k.a. signal quality) in customized time frames (ex. 2 weeks, 3 months, 3 years, all-time) would make nostr a stand-out quality information tool in even more ways than it already is.

Note to all:

FOSS devs, Bitcoin devs, and Nostr devs rock the world. I REALLY appreciate you.

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I think he's amazing! Kind of supernatural looking. Like a #catstr and a #wolfstr.

My experience with your zap somewhat mirrors @archjourney. Here's the order of events as I experienced them:

(1) Received a notification on Primal that you zapped my post (no link was shown [see screenshot]).

(2) Clicked through to your profile to see if you had content I might also enjoy.

(3) I am a creator interested in alternative monetization models--your content seemed aligned and I decided to follow.

(4) Noticed the zapvertising link in your profile bio/header.

(5) Clicked on the link in the header to see the webpage.

I'll continue to follow your experimentation. :)

Cool! It's packed with lots of great historical anthropological info. IMO the author can be a little rant-y at times as he presents his case, but the actual historical evidence is the most interesting.

Let us know your thoughts on Naked Statistics as you get into it. Maybe I'll pick that one up next.

#readingchallenge2025

#books

Truly outstanding video, Joe. Such an approachable yet cohesive explanation. Many thanks for the time and thought you put into this. Just watched it with my father and was able to have a great discussion with him. I will check out your site and stay on the lookout for other educational materials you create. Please keep us posted here on nostr!

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Some of my recent personal notes from anthropologist David Graeber's book Debt: The First 5,000 Years. These notes are excerpts that I've condensed and, to some extent, paraphrased or simplified.

NOTES:

The result during the Axial Age (800 BC-600 AD) was a new frame for making assumptions about human motivation. It simplified human motivation to concepts like "profit" and "advantage". They began to assume that "profit" and "advantage" are what all people are pursuing in every aspect of existence. Thus, with realities like the violence of war or the impersonal nature of the "marketplace", this simplified frame allowed them to drop the pretense that they cared. This, in turn, allowed human life to become a simple matter of means-to-end calculation--some­thing that could be examined using the same means used to study the attraction and repulsion of celestial bodies.

It's not coincidental that this assumption resembles those of contemporary economists.

This picture of humanity begins to appear with consistency across Eurasia wherever we see coinage and philosophy appear. China provides a transparent example. In Confucius's time, Chinese thinkers spoke of the pursuit of profit as the driving force in human life. The term used was "li", a word first used to refer to the increase of grain harvested over and above what was originally planted (the Chinese pictogram for this word is a sheaf of wheat next to a knife). From there "li" came to mean commercial profit and a general term for "benefit" or "payback."

The following story tell's the reaction of a merchant's son named Lu Buwei on learning that an exiled prince was living nearby. It clearly illustrates the progression of "li" coming to mean "profit" or "return":

Upon coming home, he said to his father,

"What is the profit on investment that one can expect from plowing fields?"

"Ten times the investment," replied his father.

"And the return on investment in pearls and jades is how much?"

"A hundredfold."

"And the return on investment from establishing a ruler and securing the state would be how much?"

"It would be incalculable."

Lu then adopted the prince's cause and eventually contrived to make him King of Qin. He continued on to become first minister for the king's son, Qin Shi Huang, helping him defeat the other Warring States to became the first Emperor of China.

We still have a compendium of political wisdom that Lu commissioned for the new emperor. It contains such military advice as the following:

"As a general principle, when an enemy's army comes, it seeks some profit. Now if they come and find the prospect of death instead, they will consider running away the most profitable thing to do. When all one's enemies consider running to be the most profitable thing to do, no blades will cross. This is the most essential point in military matters."

#ReadingChallenge2025 #5000YearsofDebt #nostr #grownostr #history #philosophy #money #economics

Your sister is the grandmother, and you are the great aunt. Those are the formal terms.

In the part of the United States and culture I grew up in, we usually called our grandmothers "grandma" and our great aunts "aunt (name)".

So my great aunts were aunt Ruth and aunt Joanne. Other cultures or parts of the United States may have called them auntie Ruth and auntie Joanne.

It does, indeed. And thanks so much for taking the time and thoughtfulness to provide the explanation. Very useful.

Thanks for this post, nostr:npub12sx4e2rtg99m0csl6dv5f68pr5hzcvz4sd3plmvqf4jzyf8p4sgsgj2v3f This made my day! 🤣

Smart and hilarious. Make sure to listen past 1:07 for the funniest part. And thank nostr:npub12sx4e2rtg99m0csl6dv5f68pr5hzcvz4sd3plmvqf4jzyf8p4sgsgj2v3f for harvesting it from X. 😂

#grownostr #nostr #humor #bullishbounty

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Awesome! Thank you. This is now part of the curriculum.